Day 6 – Sept. 12, 2017

LITERACY

The Sweetest Fig – We completed our list of evidence from the text……evidence that supports our answer to the question “Is Bibot a kind and empathetic person?”

In order to answer the question fully & well, we need to

• look at the space provided
• decide how much evidence to include 
• decide if any evidence is similar to another piece of evidence and can be COMBINED (e.g. both times Bibot threatened to “teach Marcel a lesson”)
• decide which evidence is the most important to answer the question

Looking at the lines provided, we decided that 2 pieces of evidence from the text would be sufficient. It will also give us space to add our own ideas

We talked it out with a partner — which pieces of evidence are the most significant?

We crafted an answer together — sometimes quoting from the text directly with “quotation marks” and sometimes paraphrasing so that we can use fewer words.

We talked about the addition of our own ideas & inferences and highlighted those in orange.

Tomorrow, everyone will independently write their own answer to the question!!  🙂

MATH  

We realized that everyone can solve a math problem creatively, and many people can have many different solutions to the SAME problem!

ACTIVITY #1 —- Dot Cards –  We started with a fun activity where we quickly saw an arrangements of dots and quickly counted them. Because we didn’t see the dots for long, our brains combined the dots in order to add them in groups.

We shared the various ways we looked at the dots in order to count them up. Some of us recognized the hexagon right away (6 dots) and then added the dot in the middle:

Here are all the ways we quickly saw & grouped the dots:

ACTIVITY #3 —- Paper folding & Convincing a skeptic why we are right!

We were each given a square of paper. We were asked to use folding to construct a square that has exactly 1/4 the area of the original square.

We practised (with a partner) justifying that we were correct, by giving specific descriptions & proof. It is important to define everything (what is a square?) and how we know our answer is correct. Tomorrow we will try a few more challenges

COMPOSITE NUMBERS & THEIR FACTORS

Next, we reviewed the visual representations of composite numbers and their factors from Youcubed.org, and previewed tomorrow’s math work.

The first two composite numbers (4 and 6) are completed for us already. Remember,  “x”  (multiply) means  “groups of”.

Steps:

1. Use a line to divide groups of circles into groups (all composite numbers have more than 2 factors, and so they will have at least two different ways to group the circles)
2. You may need to add your own circles to show another pair of factors.
3. Write the multiplication sentences for the groups (e.g. 1 x 4   and  2 x 2)
4. Highlight the factors   (if a number occurs more than once, only highlight one of them)
5. List the factors in the last column.
6. Write down the number of factors in the last column.

MUSIC

We continued the last lesson, where we focused on:

• posture
• diaphragmatic breathing
• balance
• steady beat
• harmonizing